I have been to two new customers in the last week who have Telstra Bigpond Thomson TG782T Modem Router Wireless Network devices for ADSL2+ and wireless Internet access. These have been a PITA to configure because of a confusing web interface.
The first customer had tried on numerous occasions, including talking with the Bigpond “Helpdesk”, but [...]

Luis Mijangos, 31, of Santa Ana, California has been arrested on charges of extortion. Nothing unusual so far, but he wasn’t extorting money – he was extorting women to make explicit videos. He used Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks to distribute malicious programs disguised as popular songs to women which then infected other friends’ and relatives’ computers. [...]

A musician in Germany sued an Internet user after his home network was used to download music illegally. When he successfully proved that he had been on holiday at the time the court in Karlsruhe fined him $164 because there was no security password on his wireless access point.
“Private users are obligated to check whether [...]

As a follow up to my last post, an article on TechRepublic titled “Crimeware: How it works” explains how the two most popular Trojans are created and what they are used for.
The Zeus Trojan Kit costs about $US700 and each Trojan created is different, so antivirus software has problems stopping the Trojan. This because each [...]

As reported by ITNews at the NSW Parliamentary Hearing into Cybercrime, Detective Inspector Bruce van der Graaf from the Computer Crime Investigation Unit has told the MPs that you shouldn’t use Microsoft Windows for Internet banking. He recommended using Linux or the Apple iPhone. The politicians were a bit confused when he mentioned Linux so [...]

As reported on smh.com.au and theinquirer.net yesterday, Integral Energy had a major problem with it’s IT control network. A virus (W32.Virut.CF) infected the Windows based computers used by operators controlling the power grid. They were saved when some quick thinking techs replaced the Windows PCs with Linux PCs that were being used for development and [...]

A recent presentation at Blackhat USA 2009 detailed a new “bootkit” that could be used to infect all versions of  Microsoft Windows from Windows XP to the soon to be released Windows 7, including Server 2003 and Server 2008. It does this by infecting the Master Boot Record (MBR) and is then even able to [...]

There have been a couple of interesting blog posts at Computerworld after the huge attack on Twitter and Facebook last week. Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols proposed that Windows PCs that don’t have up to date patches and security software should be locked out of the Internet. It has caused a huge uproar with many people abusing [...]

Maintaining a network of Windows PCs is time consuming, sure there are steps you can take to automate some tasks but you still need to check that everything has been done. One of these steps in a corporate environment is Windows Server Update Services (WSUS). It’s not a good acronym, Windows SUS[pect] but [...]

After trying about five times to update Windows Vista Premium running on my laptop and having the update fail after the reboot I began searching the Internet. It turns out that once again Microsoft have proved how poor their attitude is to the computer industry. I found an article on Softpedia -Vista SP2 Fails to [...]